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Re: Teddit – An alternative Reddit front-end focused on privacy

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Post by prox »

Maxion wrote: post #74
prox wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lightweight (teddit frontpage: ~30 HTTP requests with ~270 KB of data downloaded vs. Reddit frontpage: ~190 requests with ~24 MB) Was new reddit designed by actual morons? 24 MB and 190 requests! How did that pass any sort of QA?

Ad tracking, and obfuscation to make scraping harder, plus it's trendy to use lot's of JS libraries.

I just saw this comment on the Apolloapp reddit : >They’re trying to overvalue their services before going public. Execs want to cash out and move to a tropical island. I can’t wait for this cesspool to fail.

Re: Teddit – An alternative Reddit front-end focused on privacy

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Post by Tmpod »

Avery3R wrote: post #73
stepupmakeup wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They've already gotten rid of the .compact frontend and actively removed workarounds/aliases that users discovered when it was first removed. Old reddit is definitely next up on the chopping block.

appending .i to the end of the url will still get you the compact frontend

I was quite sure you meant to say prefixing i. (which no longer works) but tried going to reddit.com/.i anyways and it actually works! I hope it stays operational, but surely they will also nuke it eventually :/

Re: Teddit – An alternative Reddit front-end focused on privacy

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Post by tetris11 »

dexterdog wrote: post #53
mikae1 wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/ for nitter, teddit and invidious.

The problem with redirectors is that it first has to go to the site you want to avoid and then it gets redirected. I always wanted something that would re-write pages as they are displayed and I couldn't find anything so I wrote my own greasemonkey script that gives me all of my searxng/teddit/piped/rimgo/wikiless/quetre/libremdb/proxitok/neuters/scribe/. It also removes most utm trackers and referral codes from urls…

May I see it?

Re: Teddit – An alternative Reddit front-end focused on privacy

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Post by Tmpod »

dredmorbius wrote: post #64
code_biologist wrote: post #17

While we're on the topic of privacy focused frontends, anyone have recommendations for similar YouTube frontends?

Piped and Invidious. I prefer Invidious for vague reasons, though either it or the instance I use most often seems to fail about 25--50% of the time on videos, with more popular content (e.g., music) failing most often, so I'll fall back to Piped. Otherwise I use mpv / ytdl, and in fact greatly prefer that approach. For those prefering a standalone GUI, there's VLC.

I also quite enjoy the mpv/yt-dl(p) setup, and I often pair it with ytfzf[1] to ease the search part. FreeTube[2] is also a nicely done desktop frontend, capable of proxying requests through invidious.

[1]: https://github.com/pystardust/ytfzf

[2]: https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube

Re: Teddit – An alternative Reddit front-end focused on privacy

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Post by reddtastic »

If you don’t mind that Reddit knows your IP, and if you want to explore the NSFW side of Reddit, try https://reddtastic.com

You can view multiple subreddits by joining their name with a plus sign, e.g. https://reddtastic.com/r/nsfw+gonewild

Edit: Yes, the home page is NSFW! You can also browse

- Reddit’s front page: https://reddtastic.com/r/

- r/popular: https://reddtastic.com/r/popular

- r/all: https://reddtastic.com/r/all

- Or any other subreddit like https://reddtastic.com/r/aww

Re: Teddit – An alternative Reddit front-end focused on privacy

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Post by anthk »

aSockPuppeteer wrote: post #75
moneywoes wrote: post #35

Very slow but I think that’s a feature. Makes Reddit less addicting

I ended up deleting my Reddit accounts. Spend less time manually typing subreddits in or even using Reddit at all. I’m sure something else will take over but for now this and tildes leaves not much. There is more time for books or other things. I wonder if a huge swath of people started batch edit-deleting poisoning old comments, gpdr delete requests, and deleting accounts that Reddit would respond. It would greatly…

In my case I just run

      lynx gopher://gopherddit.com
with a tweaked lynx.cfg to display images with sxiv and videos with mpv.

Only for /r/retrobattlestations, maybe /r/worldnews and /r/vintageunix.

Re: Teddit – An alternative Reddit front-end focused on privacy

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Post by low_tech_love »

reddtastic wrote: post #86

If you don’t mind that Reddit knows your IP, and if you want to explore the NSFW side of Reddit, try https://reddtastic.com You can view multiple subreddits by joining their name with a plus sign, e.g. https://reddtastic.com/r/nsfw+gonewild Edit: Yes, the home page is NSFW! You can also browse - Reddit’s front page: https://reddtastic.com/r/ - r/popular: https://reddtastic.com/r/popular - r/all: https://reddtastic.co…

Whoa MAJOR NSFW warning here!! Don't click this if you're not alone. I know the commenter mentioned but it sounded like it was an optional thing. Nope!

Re: Teddit – An alternative Reddit front-end focused on privacy

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Post by dredmorbius »

Tmpod wrote: post #84
dredmorbius wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Piped and Invidious. I prefer Invidious for vague reasons, though either it or the instance I use most often seems to fail about 25--50% of the time on videos, with more popular content (e.g., music) failing most often, so I'll fall back to Piped. Otherwise I use mpv / ytdl, and in fact greatly prefer that approach. For those prefering a standalone GUI, there's VLC.

I also quite enjoy the mpv/yt-dl(p) setup, and I often pair it with ytfzf[1] to ease the search part. FreeTube[2] is also a nicely done desktop frontend, capable of proxying requests through invidious. [1]: https://github.com/pystardust/ytfzf [2]: https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube

Search is the one thing that mpv & yt-dlp don't handle. The now-moribund mps-youtube did offer search and curation and remains hands down the best interface to that service I've ever used. (It was throttled by API limits, I strongly suspect intentionally by Google.)

I've started seeing some CLI youtube search front-ends, though I've yet to try them. Thanks for mentioning ytfzf, as I'm not sure that's popped up for me before.

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